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toilet off kitchen?
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Legal requirements u need x2 fully shutable doors between toilet and kitchen
This regulation was introduced in 1970s (may even have been 1960s) but has since been relaxed.If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0 -
When we extended our house we put a utility room off the kitchen through the archway where the back door used to be, there's a loo with a basin off the utility room (but in view of the kitchen sink if you don't close the loo door!). This was built a couple of years ago and has been signed off by building control.
It occured to me it might put people off buying our house in future, but we'd rather have the downstairs loo than not, and there was nowhere else it could go. We don't plan on moving so I'm not bothered about other people's hangups!Make £2026 in 2026
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I think a downstairs toilet is always a useful thing, especially with kids coming in form the garden and forgetting to take their shoes off before tramping upstairs to the bathroom #pet hate of mine#
If a dinner party was in full flow though, not sure I'd want to be sat on the loo just the other side of the door from the diners
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Loads of 2 ups 2 downs have the main (only) bathroom off the kitchen, downstairs. Its more common than not in my neck of the woods...0
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No problem with it but don't be surprised if visitors turn down the home made chocolate log.0
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As I understand it, one door's enough if there's a sink. I think the issue isn't the toilet being next to the kitchen, but people coming out then washing their hands in the food preparation area, potentially splashing over plates or food.0
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When I sold a house a few years ago to a BTL landlord he was intending to turn the downstairs washing room - washing machines - into a small kitchenette. Next to it was a downstairs loo and he mentioned in passing to me that the regs are that you have to have two doors separating a toilet from a kitchen.
This was in Wales but I believe the regs are identical in England.
You would need to check though - local planning dept in Council should tell you I guess.This is not financial nor legal nor property advice. Consult a paid professional if in doubt.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »As I understand it, one door's enough if there's a sink. I think the issue isn't the toilet being next to the kitchen, but people coming out then washing their hands in the food preparation area, potentially splashing over plates or food.
That's right.
The regulations for having 2 doors was because it was thought that smells carried germs. They don't. So it's just not necessary; it's no less hygenic to have one door though it obviously wouldn't be hygenic for people to be putting poo germs all over the kitchen prep area :rotfl:Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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I'd be more worried about nasty niffs coming from the bathroom and in to the kitchen when I'm cooking. Ewwwww
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I'd be more worried about nasty niffs coming from the bathroom and in to the kitchen when I'm cooking. Ewwwww
Just have to make a lot of curries then
Once you start you have to make em everyday!!!!!
Good to know these rules have been relaxed. Where would you have to go to check it for sure??? Building control at the local council?0
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